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Online surveys  (formerly BOS)

Powerful, flexible online surveys

Help & support

Pre-launch messages

…one or more multiple choice (multiple answer) questions that have a short title and allow more than one answer. If a respondent selects more than one answer from these questions…

Providing limited access to results data

If you are a member of an Organisation account, online surveys allows you to provide limited access to results data to other users. This may be necessary or desirable where…

What is a "Token"?

…needing to enter a username/password combination. A personalised URL looks like this: https://accountname.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/surveyname?token=xxxxxxxx If you leave the token field blank when providing respondent data, online surveys will generate random, non-guessable…

How do I change the survey status?

…opening and closing dates are both in the past. A survey remains in draft status until it has been launched. Within online surveys, a survey is “launched” as soon as…

Copying charts from the Analysis Summary

…bar and drop it there. Visit your survey’s Analyse Summary page. Go to the Display button at the top of your Analyse page and choose All text responses. Click the

Deleting surveys

…to be purged from online surveys. This action cannot be undone and a survey cannot be recovered once it has been permanently deleted. To delete one survey at a time:…